Engineering the Future of Silk Materials through Advanced Manufacturing

Protein Bricks: 2D and 3D Bio-Nanostructures with Shape and Function on Demand

(2018) Jianjuan Jiang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fabrication of high strength graphene/regenerated silk fibroin composite fibers by wet spinning

(2017) Xinjun Hu et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Directed assembly of bio-inspired hierarchical materials with controlled nanofibrillar architectures

(2017) Peter Tseng et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Polymorphic regenerated silk fibers assembled through bioinspired spinning

(2017) Shengjie Ling et al.   Nature Communications

DNA preservation in silk

(2017) Yawen Liu et al.   Biomaterials Science

Precise Protein Photolithography (P3 ): High Performance Biopatterning Using Silk Fibroin Light Chain as the Resist

(2017) Wanpeng Liu et al.   Advanced Science

Silk-hydrogel Lenses for Light-emitting Diodes

(2017) Rustamzhon Melikov et al.   Scientific Reports

3D Printing of Hierarchical Silk Fibroin Structures

(2016) Marianne R. Sommer et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Fabrication and characterization of Eri silk fibers-based sponges for biomedical application

(2016) Simone S. Silva et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Bio-functionalized silk hydrogel microfluidic systems

(2016) Siwei Zhao et al.   BIOMATERIALS

An implantable and controlled drug-release silk fibroin nanofibrous matrix to advance the treatment of solid tumour cancers

(2016) Maobin Xie et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Regenerated silk materials for functionalized silk orthopedic devices by mimicking natural processing

(2016) Chunmei Li et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Contribution of domain 30 of tropoelastin to elastic fiber formation and material elasticity

(2016) Lisa D. Muiznieks et al.   BIOPOLYMERS

Feeding Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes or Graphene to Silkworms for Reinforced Silk Fibers

(2016) Qi Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Biomimetic 4D printing

(2016) A. Sydney Gladman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Effect of silk fibroin molecular weight on physical property of silk hydrogel

(2016) H.H. Kim et al.   POLYMER

Silk-based blood stabilization for diagnostics

(2016) Jonathan A. Kluge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Programming function into mechanical forms by directed assembly of silk bulk materials

(2016) Benedetto Marelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nanoscale probing of electron-regulated structural transitions in silk proteins by near-field IR imaging and nano-spectroscopy

(2016) Nan Qin et al.   Nature Communications

Bioabsorbable polymer optical waveguides for deep-tissue photomedicine

(2016) Sedat Nizamoglu et al.   Nature Communications

Shape Memory Silk Protein Sponges for Minimally Invasive Tissue Regeneration

(2016) Joseph E. Brown et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Physically Transient Distributed Feedback Laser Using Optically Activated Silk Bio-Ink

(2016) Hyunho Jung et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Direct Transfer Printing of Water Hydrolyzable Metals onto Silk Fibroin Substrates through Thermal-Reflow-Based Adhesion

(2016) Mark A. Brenckle et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Biomechanical Design of Elastic Protein Biomaterials: A Balance of Protein Structure and Conformational Disorder

(2016) Lisa D. Muiznieks et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Biomechanical Design of Elastic Protein Biomaterials: A Balance of Protein Structure and Conformational Disorder

(2016) Lisa D. Muiznieks et al.   ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Silk Fibroin as Edible Coating for Perishable Food Preservation

(2016) B. Marelli et al.   Scientific Reports

Bioprintable, cell-laden silk fibroin–gelatin hydrogel supporting multilineage differentiation of stem cells for fabrication of three-dimensional tissue constructs

(2015) Sanskrita Das et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Biomimetic Fibers Made of Recombinant Spidroins with the Same Toughness as Natural Spider Silk

(2015) Aniela Heidebrecht et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Inkjet Printing of Regenerated Silk Fibroin: From Printable Forms to Printable Functions

(2015) Hu Tao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Silk Fibroin for Flexible Electronic Devices

(2015) Bowen Zhu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biofabrication of Cell-Loaded 3D Spider Silk Constructs

(2015) Kristin Schacht et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Modulation of Self-Assembly Process of Fibroin: An Insight for Regulating the Conformation of Silk Biomaterials

(2015) Priyanka Dubey et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Novel fabrication of fluorescent silk utilized in biotechnological and medical applications

(2015) Dong Wook Kim et al.   BIOMATERIALS

An effective and simple process for obtaining high strength silkworm (Bombyx mori) silk fiber

(2015) Xudong Fang et al.   FIBERS AND POLYMERS

Silk fibroin sponges with cell growth-promoting activity induced by genetically fused basic fibroblast growth factor

(2015) Yusuke Kambe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Silk-based stabilization of biomacromolecules

(2015) Adrian B. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE

Instructive Conductive 3D Silk Foam-Based Bone Tissue Scaffolds Enable Electrical Stimulation of Stem Cells for Enhanced Osteogenic Differentiation

(2015) John G. Hardy et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

The Fabrication of Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell by Nanoimprinting Lithography Method Using Patterned Silk Fibroin Mold at Room Temperature

(2015) Guangzhu Ding et al.   Nanoscale Research Letters

Rheology of reconstituted silk fibroin protein gels: the epitome of extreme mechanics

(2015) A. Pasha Tabatabai et al.   Soft Matter

Aqueous multiphoton lithography with multifunctional silk-centred bio-resists

(2015) Yun-Lu Sun et al.   Nature Communications

Infrared nanospectroscopy characterization of oligomeric and fibrillar aggregates during amyloid formation

(2015) F. S. Ruggeri et al.   Nature Communications

The Fabrication of Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell by Nanoimprinting Lithography Method Using Patterned Silk Fibroin Mold at Room Temperature

(2015) Guangzhu Ding et al.   Nanoscale Research Letters

Spider Web DNA: A New Spin on Noninvasive Genetics of Predator and Prey

(2015) Charles C. Y. Xu et al.   PLoS One

Recombinant DNA production of spider silk proteins

(2015) Olena Tokareva et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Coatings and Films Made of Silk Proteins

(2014) Christian B. Borkner et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Functionalized Spider Silk Spheres As Drug Carriers for Targeted Cancer Therapy

(2014) Anna Florczak et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

There is no such thing as a biocompatible material

(2014) David F. Williams   BIOMATERIALS

Controlled Hierarchical Assembly of Spider Silk-DNA Chimeras into Ribbons and Raft-Like Morphologies

(2014) Martin Humenik et al.   NANO LETTERS

Focused ion beam lithography for fabrication of suspended nanostructures on highly corrugated surfaces

(2014) M Erdmanis et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

All-water-based electron-beam lithography using silk as a resist

(2014) Sunghwan Kim et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Ultrabroadband infrared nanospectroscopic imaging

(2014) H. A. Bechtel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silk-based resorbable electronic devices for remotely controlled therapy and in vivo infection abatement

(2014) Hu Tao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Engineering of Fluorescent Emission of Silk Fibroin Composite Materials by Material Assembly

(2014) Naibo Lin et al.   Small

Injectable Silk Foams for Soft Tissue Regeneration

(2014) Evangelia Bellas et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Silk Foam Terahertz Waveguides

(2014) Hichem Guerboukha et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Two-photon fluorescent Bombyx mori silk by molecular recognition functionalization

(2014) Naibo Lin et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Hybrid 2D–3D optical devices for integrated optics by direct laser writing

(2014) Martin Schumann et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Tip-Induced Micropatterning of Silk Fibroin Protein Using In Situ Solution Atomic Force Microscopy

(2013) Jian Zhong et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Multiple Structural Coloring of Silk-Fibroin Photonic Crystals and Humidity-Responsive Color Sensing

(2013) Ying Ying Diao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Protein-Protein Nanoimprinting of Silk Fibroin Films

(2013) Mark A. Brenckle et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Precise Patterning of Silk Microstructures Using Photolithography

(2013) Nicholas E. Kurland et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dielectric Breakdown Strength of Regenerated Silk Fibroin Films as a Function of Protein Conformation

(2013) Matthew B. Dickerson et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

The impact behaviour of silk cocoons

(2013) F. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Quantitative Measurement of Local Infrared Absorption and Dielectric Function with Tip-Enhanced Near-Field Microscopy

(2013) Alexander A. Govyadinov et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Structural analysis and mapping of individual protein complexes by infrared nanospectroscopy

(2013) Iban Amenabar et al.   Nature Communications

Sequence-Structure-Property Relationships of Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins: Integration of Biopolymer Design, Processing, and Modeling

(2012) Sreevidhya Tarakkad Krishnaji et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Direct Transfer of Subwavelength Plasmonic Nanostructures on Bioactive Silk Films

(2012) Dianmin Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Functional Silk: Colored and Luminescent

(2012) Natalia C. Tansil et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multifunctional Materials through Modular Protein Engineering

(2012) Rebecca L. DiMarco et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Silk Materials - A Road to Sustainable High Technology

(2012) Hu Tao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

AFM–IR: Combining Atomic Force Microscopy and Infrared Spectroscopy for Nanoscale Chemical Characterization

(2012) Alexandre Dazzi et al.   APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY

Structure and Biodegradation Mechanism of Milled Bombyx mori Silk Particles

(2012) Rangam Rajkhowa et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Physical and chemical aspects of stabilization of compounds in silk

(2012) Eleanor M. Pritchard et al.   BIOPOLYMERS

Phase transition-induced elasticity of α-helical bioelastomeric fibres and networks

(2012) Ali Miserez et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Structure and physical properties of silkworm cocoons

(2012) F. Chen et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Thermal Infrared Near-Field Spectroscopy

(2012) Andrew C. Jones et al.   NANO LETTERS

Gate-tuning of graphene plasmons revealed by infrared nano-imaging

(2012) Z. Fei et al.   NATURE

Silk inverse opals

(2012) Sunghwan Kim et al.   Nature Photonics

Stabilization of vaccines and antibiotics in silk and eliminating the cold chain

(2012) Jeney Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silkworms transformed with chimeric silkworm/spider silk genes spin composite silk fibers with improved mechanical properties

(2012) F. Teule et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Physically Transient Form of Silicon Electronics

(2012) S.-W. Hwang et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanism of resilin elasticity

(2012) Guokui Qin et al.   Nature Communications

Simultaneous additive and subtractive three-dimensional nanofabrication using integrated two-photon polymerization and multiphoton ablation

(2012) Wei Xiong et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Intrinsically Colored and Luminescent Silk

(2011) Natalia C. Tansil et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Unexpected Strength and Toughness in Chitosan-Fibroin Laminates Inspired by Insect Cuticle

(2011) Javier G. Fernandez et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bio-inspired capillary dry spinning of regenerated silk fibroin aqueous solution

(2011) Wei Wei et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

Decoding the secrets of spider silk

(2011) Lukas Eisoldt et al.   Materials Today

Nanoconfinement of Spider Silk Fibrils Begets Superior Strength, Extensibility, and Toughness

(2011) Tristan Giesa et al.   NANO LETTERS

Materials fabrication from Bombyx mori silk fibroin

(2011) Danielle N Rockwood et al.   Nature Protocols

Shape of tropoelastin, the highly extensible protein that controls human tissue elasticity

(2011) C. Baldock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functionalized-Silk-Based Active Optofluidic Devices

(2010) Konstantinos Tsioris et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Rapid Nanoimprinting of Doped Silk Films for Enhanced Fluorescent Emission

(2010) Jessica P. Mondia et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Rapid Nanoimprinting of Silk Fibroin Films for Biophotonic Applications

(2010) Jason J. Amsden et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The effect of incorporation of exogenous stromal cell-derived factor-1 alpha within a knitted silk-collagen sponge scaffold on tendon regeneration

(2010) Weiliang Shen et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Recombinant spider silk particles as drug delivery vehicles

(2010) Andreas Lammel et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins for Applications in Biomaterials

(2010) Kristina Spiess et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

Molecular and Nanostructural Mechanisms of Deformation, Strength and Toughness of Spider Silk Fibrils

(2010) Andrea Nova et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

(2010) F. G. Omenetto et al.   SCIENCE

Biocompatible Silk Printed Optical Waveguides

(2009) Sara T. Parker et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Determination of local diffusion properties in heterogeneous biomaterials

(2009) Niklas Lorén et al.   ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Insect Silk: One Name, Many Materials

(2009) Tara D. Sutherland et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Silicon electronics on silk as a path to bioresorbable, implantable devices

(2009) Dae-Hyeong Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Self-Assembly of Genetically Engineered Spider Silk Block Copolymers

(2009) Olena S. Rabotyagova et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Some properties of keratin biomaterials: Kerateines

(2009) Paulina Hill et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Structure and functions of keratin proteins in simple, stratified, keratinized and cornified epithelia

(2009) Hermann H. Bragulla et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Biomedical applications of chemically-modified silk fibroin

(2009) Amanda R. Murphy et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Role of Polyalanine Domains inβ-Sheet Formation in Spider Silk Block Copolymers

(2009) Olena S. Rabotyagova et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

A protocol for the production of recombinant spider silk-like proteins for artificial fiber spinning

(2009) Florence Teulé et al.   Nature Protocols

Tissue Response to Subcutaneously Implanted Recombinant Spider Silk: An in Vivo Study

(2009) Camilla Fredriksson et al.   Materials

Nano- and Micropatterning of Optically Transparent, Mechanically Robust, Biocompatible Silk Fibroin Films

(2008) Hannah Perry et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

On the mechanisms of biocompatibility

(2008) David F. Williams   BIOMATERIALS

Three-dimensional micropatterning of bioactive hydrogels via two-photon laser scanning photolithography for guided 3D cell migration

(2008) Soo-Hong Lee et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Silk film biomaterials for cornea tissue engineering

(2008) Brian D. Lawrence et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Bone tissue engineering with premineralized silk scaffolds

(2008) Hyeon Joo Kim et al.   BONE

Investigating by CD the molecular mechanism of elasticity of elastomeric proteins

(2008) Brigida Bochicchio et al.   CHIRALITY

Preparation and characterization of regenerated Bombyx mori silk fibroin fiber with high strength

(2008) Z. H. Zhu et al.   Express Polymer Letters

Processing methods to control silk fibroin film biomaterial features

(2008) Brian D. Lawrence et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

A new route for silk

(2008) Fiorenzo G. Omenetto et al.   Nature Photonics

Collagen Tissue Engineering: Development of Novel Biomaterials and Applications

(2008) Lian Cen et al.   PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

Assembly mechanism of recombinant spider silk proteins

(2008) S. Rammensee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MATERIALS SCIENCE: Bioinspired Structural Materials

(2008) C. Ortiz et al.   SCIENCE

FTIR reveals structural differences between native β-sheet proteins and amyloid fibrils

(2004) Giorgia Zandomeneghi et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE